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    BLAIM £ 5jil « Ml! TIMES.
VOL. VI.
Jt is estimated that Uncle Samuel will
payout at least $1, 500,000 in artificial
lejfs and arms in 1890.
'William Xye, the humorist and philoso
pher, sagely and wittily remarks that
there are two kinds of baldheadcd men.
Some are bald on the outride aud some
are bald on the inside.
The railroad companies of the United
States owe $4,600.000,000. Last year the
amount of interest paid by the railroads
of the United States was $207,000,000,
and the amount in dividends-$80,000,
000. If the amount of freight hauled
were all reduced to one mile, it would
amount to $70,000,000,000 tons of
freight.
Joaquin Miller, who, after lie went into
Wall street and lost his little pile, used
to rail at the rich and revile leading New
York capitalists, has become a capitalist
himself. Some years ago he bought 200
acres of land near San Francisco, and now
they have become valuable for town lots.
The poet says that lie shall spend the re
mainder of his days on the Pacific
slope.
The whole trade of Calcutta was
almost paralyzed recently by a general
strike of native bullock-carters, 30,000
in number. They arc forced to pay a
heavy municipal license. A local firm
endeavored to levy a further fee for
priVate registration, and the carters
thought that this was an endeavor to
impose an increase of taxation, The
misunderstanding was removed.
It is said that the common cowcatcher
attachment to locomotives is about tho
only article of universal use that was
never patented. Its inventor was D. B.
Davies, of Columbus, who found his
model in the plow. Red lights on the
rear car of trains, it is further said, were
adopted at the suggestion of the late Mrs.
Swisshelm, after a railway accident in
which she had a narrow escape.
Treasury statistics show that tho ex
portations of Mexico for the first half of
the fiscal year 1888-9 amounted to $26,-
846,990, indicating a total exportation
for the year of $33,000,000, tho largest
ever known in the history of the country.
'The exportation of precious metals in
creased in the half year, as compared
with the previous half year, $1,999,809,
and merchandise exports mereascd’ < S570,-
263. These facts bear out the statements
regarding the prosperity of the country,
unci what railways are giving to the de
velopment of Mexico.
Rev. J. Crossett, an independent
American missionary recently died in
China, where he had been devoting him
self to labor among the benighted. He
had charge of a winter refuge for the
poor at Peking during several winters,
and made it his business to seek out the
sick and unfortunate for the purpose of
affording them relief rather than to
change their faith. He went about in
Chinese costume, and accepted no remu
neration for his labors except his enter
tainment. He was everywhere welcomed
among the Chinese and was called by
them 4 ‘the Christian Buddha. ’’
The inquiry is not infrequently ad
dressed to a millionaire, “Why do you
not discontinue business? You have
wealth enough, you need not work any
longer’'—and the answer almost invaria
lily is, “What shall I do with my idle
hours, if I have no employment?” This
was the answer that that eminent Chica
goan of brains and wealth, Mr. Philip I).
Amour, made when an English syndicate
offered him a bonus of 85,000,000 in ad
dition to the estimated value of his great
pork unu great beef-packing plant. Mr.
Armour doubted if he would find peace
of mind in a plethoric purse and no busi
ness.
Tl'.e St. Louis Globe-Democrat is not
quite sure whether we should “rejoice at
Chinese progress or regret it, for the
waking up of the vast Mongolian masses
means the , precipitation of , an overplus ,
upon the Aryan world that we do not
■yet know how to deal with. However,
it is certain that China will soon be
practically a modern btate. Tne corner
vative element is effectually overcome
and railwiiv construction has been en
tered on as a national policy. Peking is
at once to be joined to Tien Tsin by a
road passing through the most populous
district of the Empire. The radicals or
refonners are at last entirely triumphant.
and C hma will adopt every means for de
velopment. It will be impossible to
exist on the same planet under a system
ed mutual exclusion.’’
BLACKSIlEAl CA. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1889.
.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS ,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS IRON EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKES,
I IRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
The Swiss government has adopted tht
smokeless powder for her army.
The schooner Erie capsized on Monday
eight, near Port Rowan, Ont., and eight
persons were drowned.
A number of branches of the National
league in the counties of Waterford and
Tipperary, Ireland, have been suppressed.
It is rumored that the German govern
ment will ask a credit for 300,000,000
marks for bronze guns for the new smoke
less powder.
The large four-story morocco shop of
Peter Sill & Sons, on Grove street, Sa
lem, Mass., burned Friday. Loss $1,000
000, partially insured.
Up to the recess Tuesday night 027
jurors had been excused iu the Cronin
case at Chicago, four accepted and sworn
in and four temporarily passed.
The Rotterdam, Holland, dock labor
ers’ strike was brought to an end on
Wednesday. The modified terms of the
employers were accepted by the men.
'Eleven men were killed by an upheaval
of the earth in a quarry near Lima, O.,
on Thursday. The upheaval was fol
lowed by the spouting of a subterranean
stream of water 200 feet into the air.
August Belmont, of New York, has
ordered $500,000 in gold for export.
The assay office does not know where
the gold is to be shipped. Belmont &
Co. also refuse any information about it.
A construction train on the Mucky
railroad left the track at a point about
eighteen milts west of Bedford, Ind.,
Thursday afternoon. Ten of twenty
eight men on the train were seriously in
jured. Six were dangerously hurt, while
two will die.
There was a fatal collision on the St.
Louis and S in Francisco railroad, near
Notthview, Mo., on Saturday. Seven
2 ars were (lumped over an embankment,
The engineer of one train was killed,
and four men dangerously hurt.
Conebacerj, M. P., who was released
from Londonderry jail, Saturday, was
received with great enthusiasm on his
arrival at London. A procession, fiiends, escorted com
posed of thousands of
iii’n to Glerkenwell gieen,where speeches
jf welcome were made.
The grand jury, at Chicago, III., on
Saturday, failed to return any indict
ments against any of the gamblers particu- of
city, though their attention was
larly directed to it by Judge Horton.
The Evening News alleges that the polit
cal “pull” of the gamblers prevented it.
A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., says:
Thu boom iti steel aud iron rivals the
memorable advance of 1884. Steel rails
to-day cannot be bought for lees than
$33 per ton, and manufacturers are quite
independent on these figures, for it is
confidently believed the price will reach
$35.
Liverpool’s cotton Matemcnt for the
past v- ec-lc is as follows: Total sales of the
week 38,009; American, 27,000. Trade
leakings, including forwarded from ship
side, 34,000; actual export, 3,000; total
import, 32,000; American, 22,000; total
stock, 363,000; American, 202,000; total
afloat, 134,000; American, 120,000.
The suicide of a whole family is re
ported from Odessa, Russia. A school
teacher named Sause committed suicide,
whereupon his widow became insane,
She first threw three of her children out
of a third-story window’, and then, tak
ing the other two in her arms, jumped
out with them. All were killed.
On ex-Queen Natalie's visit to Bel
grade,her presence was totally ignored by
government officials, but she was re
ceived most enthusiastically by crowds
that thronged the streets through which
she passed. On private residences and
places of business throughout the city
flags were displayed in her honor.
The strike of the window light glass
blowers, which began at Baltimore, Md.,
lust June, and Ids seriously affected
manufacturers and 5,000 employes in
business, most of whom are located iu
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
and Maryland, was settled on last
Saturday. The demand of the blowers
was for an advance of ten per cent., but
a compromise of 5J per cent, was agreed
upon.
The twenty-fifth annual meeting of
the National Association of Wool Man
ufacturers was held at New dork on
Wednesday. The following officers
were elected for the ensuing year:
President, Wm. Whitman, Boston; Vice
Presidents, John L. Houston, Hartford,
Conn.; A. C. Mi ler, Utica, N. Y-, and
Thomas Dolan, Philadelphia; treasurer,
Benjamin Phipps. Boston, and secretary,
8. N. D. North, Boston.
A frightful wreck occurred oa the
d'ounsrstown A Ashtabula division of the
Pennsylvania company’s lines at Haz'e
early Thursday morning, by
w Hich Flagman John Fitzgerald was iu
stantlv killed and Conductor Ben Milner
badly injured. A freight train going
westbroke in two going up a steep grade,
and t jj e detached part ran back to en
-_dne 231 going in the same direction,
f'he engine was wrecked and several
freight cars were smashed to kindling
wood.
The Iowa supreme court, at Dei
Moines, has given a death blow tc
the hitherto sacred rights and privileges
^‘^J^fsteilrlln^hedt.rict of the State
court in the murder case vs.
Royal Adams. Adams wag indicted for
murder in the first degree, for tbe acci
dental shooting of a person named Har
ing, a member of a charaviri party, con-
vicied of manslaughter, and sentenced to
the penitentiary for seven years aud six
mouths.
BLOWN TO ATOMS.
THE BOILERS OF A STEAMER KXPLODH
WITH DISASTROUS RESULTS.
The steamer Corona, of the Ouachita
consolidated line, left New Orleans,
Thursday night for Ouachita river, with
a full cargo of freight and a good list of
passengers. She exploded her boilers at
False river, nearly opposite Port Hudson,
at 11.45 Thursday morning, causing the
loss of the steamer and about forty lives.
The Anchor line steamer City of Ft.
Louis, Captain James and Oneil, boats "as saveQ ntj.ii
by, and with bis crew
many lives. The surviving passenger!
and crew tllkt | n
iSKJiir . zi.
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„ „ . .
J. W. Blanks, captain; ,J. V. Gordon,
first clerk; Charles C. Elios,second Dinklc, clerk;
Swimn liana, third clerk; Fred
barkeeper; Fred Verman, barkeeper; Pat
Bvan, stewart; Dick Curtis, fireman ;Tom
Hook, engineer; Henry Doyle, barber; porter;
Jomes Swipe, porter;--Tate, hand; Tom Cook,
Henry Davis, deck
sailormau; Billy Young, second mate;
Sam Steel, a boy; both captains of the
deckwatck; fifteen musters, names un
known.. The passengers lost were;
Dr. Atwell, corn doctor; four negro mu
sicians; Mr. Scott, Southland, La.; Mr.
Stockman, Texas; Mr. Koench; Mrs.
Huff, of Opelouses, sister of Captain
Banks; Mr. Wilson, of’Red River _ Landing.
The Corona was on her first trip of the
season, amt had but recently come out of
tho drydock, where she received repairs
amounting to nearly $12,000. She was
built at Wheeling, W. Va., seven years
ago and has a carrying capacity of 2,700
bale’s of cotton. At the time of the acci
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A GOOD SHOWING.
ADVANTAGES OF THE SOUTH IN THE COT
TON MILL INDUSTRY SET FORTH.
Tne Tradesman, of Chattanooga,
instituted nn exhaustive inquiry into
cotton mill industry of the South, Mud
lias received reports from all
mills of the southern states. The actual
number of mills iu operation is of 3311, 232
against 142, in 1880, au increase
per cent, since the census year. The in
crease. in mill consumption of raw cotton
in the same period lias been253percent.
South Carolina is the banner state;
132,31‘J bales were consumed in that
state last year, against 120,988 bales in
Georgia. The consumption has of increased raw cot
ton in South Carolina
33 per cent, in two years, Tho
concensus of opinions of leading
manufacturers of the South in their
written reports to tho Tradesman, is that
the South possesses advantages over tiny
other portion of America for cotton man
ufacture in: 1. Proximity to ra >■ mate
rial. 2. Superior climate. 3. Cheaper
power. 4. Lower cost of renting and
living. 5. Lower wage scale. 6. L-m
liability to strikes. 8. Less expense, for
heating mills. 9. Saving on freight. The
Tradesman has received returns
of dividends from twenty-five leading
mills in the Houth, located in six differ
ent states. These dividends run between
extremes of four arid twenty-eight per
per cent, and average of twenty-five is
1 It per cent, per annum. These twenty
five tairly represent the whole.
WORK OF THE FLAMES.
THE residence portion of grand
HAVEN, MICHIGAN, BURNED OUT.
A large part, and the best part, of the
residence portion of Grand Haven,
Mich., was wiped out by a great fire
Tuesday morning. Among the buildings
burned are the following; The Cutler
bou-e, one of the best hotels in Michi
gan ; the residence of D.vight Butler, a
b' uutiful place, filled with exquisite fur
niture, valuable pictures und works of
art. The residences of Mrs. Slayton, T.
A. D. Parris, George D. Sanford, Capt.
McCullom, A. 8. Kenzie. Three
churches were burned—the First Re
form' d, Unitarian and Methodist. Be
sides these there were thirty residences.
No lives were lost. The sweep of tire
included both sides of Main 6trect from
Slayton’s grocery, v.h re the fire or gi
nated, to Ackely institute, and everything
in its path was wiped out. The total
loss is about $500,000, with a (air
amount of insurance.
MORMONS SN CONFERENCE,
urging the adherents of Tnu MORMON
FAn h TO SUSTAIN its principles.
A dispatch from Salt Lake City says:
The sixtieth general semi-annual confer
ence of the Mormon Church began Bat
unlay. Wilfred Woodruff, president of
church, presided, and George Q. Can
non, of the first presidency, was pres
ent. There were also present, five other
high church officials. President Aid Wood
ruff, in the opening address, the
Mormon church had been established by
God, and that no power on earth could
stay its progress. All revelations given
direct to the saints, from God, including and notwithstanding polygamy, came
the trials and troubles through which the
Mormons had passed, the Lord would
susta n all those who obeyed his princi
plea and his revelations. Apostle John
W. Tay lor commended the people to give
obei-er.ee to the priesthood. “These ;
men at the bead of the church,” he said, I
“have the spirit of revelation and speak
for God. I liesr my testimony that
President IVoodroff arid his counsellor
are prophets, seers and reveSators. The
hand of God is over this church, and rm
p>wer can destroy it or impede its prog-
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OK WHAT IS (101N0 ON Of
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
The Florence, Ala., bank has been au
thorized to begin business with a
of $50,000.
The property of the North Alabama
Lumber company of Bridgeport, Ala.,
was attached by creditors Thursday,
Tho directors „f ,i u! Ladies’
u ss0C j at j 0I1 0 f Nashville, on Tuesday
;ftll j llv jt tt tion to tho delegates of the in
ternatiouiil congress “to visit the home
Alldrow Jackson.
The Hamilton county, 4 Tenn., five
rwr a » T * r
| day sold to Forster, Leech -a & Co., u oi
M^dcd us most satisfactory tj. -
North Carolina will the principal-- _
pay the lulled
$147,000 -on an old claim of
«sbs government, but will leave the
question of interest to tho United States
supremo court.
The Baltimore American announces
that the Maryland White Lead company
hus been absorbed by the national lead
trust, and that the stock of the company
was turned over to the trust Thursday,
Three men were burned to death at
Winona, Miss., in ,a fire which destroyed
the restaurant of It, G. Lotus. The men
were Tlunmis Lawtrv, his son aud Paul
vVilliiuns.
The corner s'onc of the new music
llllU , lt K , w Orietms, La., was laid Sun
d#v ufternoou with wreat ceremony. It
wi j| lmve ft mating capacity of (5,000 iu
th e nuditorium mi<] 1,800 ’ on the stage,
1 »>« village of (,'tmbria, ,, . ( ... al was ul- ,
entirely destroyed by fire I uesday.
XiTlISi"
less is about $125,000; insurance about
$ 12 , 000 .
One of the largest clmrters over granted
to any corporation in the south, was
praided by the superior court of Georgia,
by which the Southern Home Building
and Loan association, of Atlanta, Ga.,
was incorporated, with authority to do
business in Georgia or any oilier state.
'I'll" authorized capital stock is $20,000,
000 .
A war among the bouts on the Chatta
hoochee was inaugurated at Columbus,
On,, on Tuesday, and tho half rate will
prevail hereafter. Cotton will be trans
ported to Brunswick for fifty-five cents a
halo instead of per hundred pounds as
heretofore. 'Thu light promises to bo »
lively one.
Two of the largest first mortgage bond
holders, of tho South Carolina railway,
at ( buries, ton, S. C., have refused to de
posit their bonds with the Union Trust
company, of New York, or to be content
with the settlement bondholders. proposed hy^'ie It is see
oud mortgage ru
mored, on very good authority, that *
receiver will be appointed for the road,
The grand jury Tuesday of the and parish investigated of Or
leans, La., met session of the
the state bond fraud. The
grand jury lasted four hours, and nine
indictments were found charged against with fraud some
person or persons No given,
and embezzlement. names are
but it seems to lm w.-li understood thut
ex-treasurer E. A. Burke is a party in
eaeli case.
A letter received at Greensboro, N. C.,
on Wednesday, from Russell A. Alger,
the Michigan millionaire, says that In
intends to visit North Carolina in tiu
near future with a view of investing
some of his vast accumulated wealth, d
is not known just what lino of business
he will interest himself in, but it is be
lieved he will place a good deal of money
in the state.
A dispatch from Birmingham, the Coal- Ala.,
says: “Six hundred miners at
berg coal mines of the Slnss Iron and
8teel Company went out on u strike 'Tues
day morning. 'The company 1ms been
paying fifty cents per tori for mining
and fifty cents at slopes where the vein
was thim Last week they notified the
men of a reduction to fifty cents at some
of the slopes, where they had been pay
tog fifty-five, and at a meeting of the
miiiers a strike against tho reduction was
ordered.
The Peabody Normal college at Nash- ^
vide. Tenn., opened Wednesday morning
for the session of 1889-90. There were
262 enrolled students from the following
states: Alabama 24, Arkansas 9, Fieri
da, 2, Georgia 10, Louisiana 7, Missis
sippi 1, Missouri 1, North Carolina 15,
Ohio], South Carolina 12. Tennessee
'jVxtsp' West Virginia 12 and
Virginia 12. This is the largest number
ever present at the college. Kentucky
ia , he on j y Southern state not repm
ger]{(1 ,j
Mre board , of . trade . , on toiday, , , tons , ,
^ “eps oward making Jacksonville
Fla ;: » f t,0Q Warehouse fa
c,,stm tiavc . bcM1 tem P oran! >
and a siock company ins been joirriu ,
to build a new warehouse. A.l J arm
'-' rh Alliance growers wi I ship their cot
to Jacksonville, And a Brunswick,
Ga., firm has agreed to open an office at
Jacksonville and ship largely through
that port. It is expected will that at handlec least
eighty thousand bales be
there this year.
A Pensacola, Fla., special to the Jack
son ville Tirnr-- Union says: At a meeting
of the city cummissionera held Trmrsday,
Major-Chipley v as instructed to com
moiheate with the mayor* of Montgom
- ry, Birmingham, Nashville. New < r
leu , Mobile, Savannah, Charleston and
other cities to induce a joint effort del- tc
lwve the present route of the foreign 1
egates to the International American
Congress sj changed as to include all
important cities of the South and Gulf
ports.”
The town of Trenton, Tenn., eighteen
miles south of Chattanooga, on the
Alabama Great Southern Road, is on a
boom, occasioned by the reported clos
ing of n big deal by a Northon syndicate
involving the purchase of largo tracts of
mineral and town lands, aud pledging
the syndicate to spend $000,000 in im
provements. Hundreds of people arc
there from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee,
Mississippi, and other States laying oil
old cornfields, etc., into town lots. The
people arc fairly wild, and large amount!
of property are changing hands every
, iav.
THE LEGISLATURE.
BILLS PASSED IIT THE SENATE AND HO USB
OF REPRESENTATIVES.
A bill to incorporate the Merchants
and Traders bank, of Brunswick, with u
capital of $100,000 to $250,000; to au
thorize the commissioners of tho town of
Louisville to purchase from tho Louis
ville academy a tract of land for sanitary
purposes, tor a price not to exceed
$4,ol)0; to incorporate the Kansas City,
Chattanooga and Port Royal Bail road
company; to amend flic set establishing ti
board of county commissioners of Miller
county; to amend the act Covington; regulating tho
storage of fertilizers in a res
otution to authorize the purchase of four
hundred copies of the Van Epps digest,
for the use of the state library and offi
cers, and for distribution, the price not
to exceed $5 a volume; a three mile pro
hibition bill for tlm liaptist church, iti
the town of llomer, in Bunks county;
a bill to amend the road law of Carlton
county; a bill to amend tho charter of
tho Merchants’ Bank of Macon, so as to
make each stockholder liable to an
amount double their subscriptions, not to
exceed one-tenth the capital slock of the
bank; a bill to incorporate the Main
bridge, Lake Douglass and Suburban
Street Railroad company, with a capital
of $50,000 to $100,000; a bill to amend
tins act establishing an academy iu Louis
villo by increasing the number of trusteos
to twolve; a bill to amend the charter
of the Rome railroad, so that
it may extend oast to the South Car
olina and west to tho Alabama line;
a bill to incorporate the Home, Eubligmi
and Northern Hail mad company, or
dummy line, witi» a capital authorizing stock <>!
$100,000. A resoltilion the
governor to appoint a cominiasii'ii of
three to investigate the oyster industry
ami report what legislation is incorpi necessaiy
to it h advancement; a bill to inn.:
the Banking and Trust company of MU
ledgeville; a four-mile prohibition lull
for Wildwood Baptist Church and Mur
gauville Methodist Church in Dado
county; a bill to incorporate the South
ern Loan anti Banking company with a
capital of $100,000 to $500,000; a one
mile prohibition bill lor Uuitv Baptist
Church and Union Methodist Church lit
Gordon county; a bill to repeal that sec
tion of the Loganville charter which re
quires $1,000 license for the salt! "f in
toxicating liquor; a bill to amend the
charter of Midway meeting house, so an
to change tho time of the termination of
the offices of the, selectmen; to amend
the act establishing the city court of Co
lumbus in regard to solicitor’s fees; to le
galize and regulate the lease or condi
tional sale of rolling stock to railroad
com panics; a bill to require assignees of
failing or insolvent debtors to give bond.
The amount to be fixed and the bond
approved by the ordinary, If till! IIH
signeo fails to give the bond, a majority
of the creditors shall have power to
choose an assignee who shall give bond.
If the assignee shall not qualify within
ten days after the execution of the deed
of assignment, the sheriff shall take
charge of the property in the interim and
ut the end of the ten days turn over tne
property to the original assignee; a bill
to prohibit the sale or barter, or exchange
of seed cotton in Muscogee between the
15th of A ugust anil the 15th of December
without the written consent of this
owner of the land whereon it was grown.
birm , NG HAM’8 REPORT.
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gom MKS K „ MV TW0 „ Y acci deni
and two muiidhbed.
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A dispatch from Birmingham, Jefferson Ala.,
(, a ys: Death reaped it harvest in
coun \y Estes Friday. got caught During the the fly-wheel morning
George lling-mill at Gate in City, and was
(J f t | 1( . ro
beaten to pcices. IV. Heaton, an ei.
ploje of the Pullman Cur company w .«
walking backwards behind a car m the
Georgia Iacitio yard. m ' l .
connected and moving slowly, ana ne
was frying to stop it with a crow-bar.
He fell across the tu< ran’ iisxn ywm
cut in twain Deputy Sheriff lutng; Va n
was shot and liistsntly Kille-i late-hm oy .1 >im
Steele, a negro, and four hours
} wn j overtaken by a P"»* ; uud
bis body riddled with bullets, 1 h-: mu/
rlured deputy was one of the most popu
lar officers in the courrtv.
BAD MONEY IN THE BOX
A PREACHER’S FLOCK FAY UP IN COUNTER
FEIT MONEY—SUBSEQUENT TROUBLE.
--
A sensation ' was created in Chambers
rr>wl Ala., several days ago, by the
fp. v , j, JJ. >1, Injrau, a Metho
diet minister, charged will pa' sing coun
money. He was lodged in jail,
8 nd his triai came off Thursday. Head
t |, 8 t he had nissed spurious
mffnev but proved that he had got it out
f) f t j 1( j contribution hoi. There were
c p f ht silver dollars in thf box. and seven
0 f them were cennterfei 1 *. He said God
anr i the sinners who passed the lhecaae cuius
were t k e oa i» ones wh know,
babS dismia-ed on ace mt of the officers’
to get alaent witneca.
NO. 1.
A DYNAMITE EXPLOSION
IN WHICH THREE MEN ARK killed and
ABOUT TWENTY INJURED.
Two men were instantly killed, an
other fatally injured, and about twenty,
or less, hurt, at the bottom of the
and Hccla perpendicular shaft
at Houghton, Micln, Friday. The us
ual blasts of dynamite were tired Thurs
day evening, but one failed to explode.
On Friday ‘>nc of the miners accidently
struck the. charge with his pick. A deaf
ening ploding crash followed, the dynamite shattered ex
and sending masses of
rock in deadly showers all around the
spot. Otto Flink and Alfred Erickson,
Were killed instantly, their bodies being
frightfully torn and scarred by the flying
pieces of rock. Nelson Boone was fatally
injured. John Cameron hud his right
arm broken in two places by pieces of
stone,both legs being cut in many places.
Twenty-six miners, who were at work in
the vicinity,were all more or less injured.
The accident took place 1,000 tcet under
the ground.
BANK STATEMENT.
hollowing is a statement of the asso
ciated bunks at New York for the week
ending Saturday 5th: 003,806
Beset ve decrease...... .$ 2 ,
Specie Loans dt-etease......... 1 , 252,360 085,200
deerease....... 2 ,
I .ejptl tend, i s decteiiHc. 1 , 000,400 014,100
I )c posits dee i ell SO... . .. 0 ,
i irciilatinii increase .. . U,6C0
The bunks now hold $1,008,050 less
than 2.5 per cent, rule calls for. For the
(itst tune since the week- following the
May panic of 1881, the statement shows
the reserve held to be less than ‘25 per
rent, of tint deposits required by deposits tho na
tional banking law. The
amount to $112,273,800, against which
•inly $1,014,000 is held in reserve, The
deficit is $1,(1(58,050, as the legal re
quirement is $103,0(18,4 50. The deficit of
is almost wholly caused by the drain
money to the West and South where over
$67,000,000 was shipped last week, uuu
almost ns much went in the week pro*
ceding.
ROUTING THE MORMONS.
True WHITE CAPS DRIVING MORMON KLD
If.Its FROM TENNESSEE.
News came from Wilson county,
Tenn., Thursday, that tho Mormon elders
have been driven out of that county by
the Wbito Caps. The ciders disap
peared Homo time ago, when the agitation
was hot against them, hut a few days ago
returned, believing the storm to have
blown over. Their incendiary utterances
were not forgotten, however, and the
people who warned them proposed fifty to
make their threats good. Forty or
men, masked and robed in white, on
Wednesday night visited the house of
William Barrett, Thou.ns Smith and Lee
Barrett, whore the elders had been,
searching had for them. and Some one, elder however,
given warning, not nn cautioned wsi
to he found. These men were
against allowing the elders to over darken
their doors again, und the elders left the
county.
UNFORTUNATE JOHNSTOWN
MANY rliOI'J.K .hi I rKlilND I OH WANT OF
i’Hon.H ('LOTIII.NO AND IIKI.TKR.
With the thermometer about (fie freez
ing point there fan great deni of suffering
nt. Johnstown, l'ii., these rights by peo
ple who are improperly sheltered anti
poorly flail. The relief money, which
was intended to supply their necessities,
even if paid at once, will come too late
to lie properly applied in providing Clothing
against the blasts of winter.
that wan on hand when the commissary
department shut down lias been trans
fered to the Red Cross society, by whom
it will ho distributed to tho needy.
'There have been a grr-ut many deaths
there within the past week and most of
them have been superinduced tin; fiood. by In ail- the
ments contracted in
Red Cross hospital there are twenty-two
cases of typhoid fever.
THE L. &. N.
ANNUAL MEETINQ OF bTOCK HOLDER#- 4
ELECTION oy OLD OFFICERS.
The annual meeting of the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad stockholders, was
held at 8t. Louis, Mo., on Thursday,
Pnr-ident Norton and Directors J. J).
Probst, Win. Mcrtens, August Belmont,
Jr., J. M. Horsey arid A- Marcus, of New
York, were pre-ent us stockholders, rep
resenting, through proxy, other director*
and London and New York stockholders.
1 ne issue of thirteen million dollar* of
new stock was contirmed, only one
stockholder, a woman, owning fifty-four
shares, object!i g. The directors of the
road met and re-elected the old officers.
I he bonded indebtedness is $05,726,660,
au increase of $1,680,000; gros* earning*
$16,590,396; net c-wrni.n^s $ 1,273,310.
THE 8AME OLD 8TORY.
TIT* aOOKKKEFER OF A CONNECTICUT TIB.*
ARRESTED FOR EMBEZZLEMENT.
Charres Pratt, confidential boo . .
8. -
keener, secretary and cashier of t li
Wales Llccu Compiny. of Mer.ucu,
Conn., waa arrested o^s Thursday for em
bezzlement. Pratt * embezzlement
amounts to over $10,000, co\ enng varion
pwiods since 188 J, and w.ts accomplis
By false'jntneamjunly on pay rot s -
affair has cauaed a profound aensati _ ,
Pratt w-ia an officer in several .oc-a o
k'uurzaUona, tre esur r of toe F-r.- . '
greguUonal Society an> i a city a.< *
confessed hsa guilt , j
.o t* eru <
era, saying: “It is tne same o * - -
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